User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Sometimes, when typing or pasting ' or / characters into a form field (in my case a textarea on slashdot.org) the input jumps to the fast find toolbar input box. The option to start searching when you start typing is not active. Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Steps to Reproduce: 1. Access a page with a form field 2. Type or paste the appropriate characters into the form field. Actual Results: Input focus changed to the input field for quick find. Expected Results: Entered the appropriate characters into the form field.

I have ran into this bug as well, and it is difficult to reproduce. It typically occurs for me when I am typing directly into a form field. Regardless, the apostraphe key should not be a shortcut for the Find dialog box... CTRL-F does that. (In reply to comment #0) > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) > Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 > Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) > Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 > > Sometimes, when typing or pasting ' or / characters into a form field (in my > case a textarea on slashdot.org) the input jumps to the fast find toolbar input > box. The option to start searching when you start typing is not active. > > Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce > > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. Access a page with a form field > 2. Type or paste the appropriate characters into the form field. > Actual Results: > Input focus changed to the input field for quick find. > > Expected Results: > Entered the appropriate characters into the form field. >

reporter -do you browse with windows or tabs? Is this happening when multiple windows are open? if yes, does it happen if you open those windows with ctrl+n?

This happens to me occasionally as well. I think it happens most often when multiple windows are open, but not opened with ctrl+n. When this happens I also can't use the arrow keys to move the cursor within a text field and when I click outside of the text field (so that none is selected) and hit the apostrophe it will not bring up the 'find' command. Closing the window will fix it, and occasionally it will go away after some amount of time (last time it was around a half hour).

I've been tracking this bug and some solutions to it on my weblog: http://www.adammessinger.com/2005/12/20/firefox-find-bug-fix In the main entry I record what fixed the problem for me, with an update posted in May (bottom of the entry) that details a commenter's experience fixing the problem by editing user.js. Comment number five also describes a troubleshooting process that can be followed to determine whether the problem is actually being caused by an extension rather than by Firefox itself.

Sorry, but that's not a fix. There isn't much discussion about the cause in this bug, but the cause is a focus issue, most likely to be fixed by bug 220900. I should go through and do some cleanup, dupe some of these.